Supermicro CSE-827 upgrade path

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Bert

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It seems like these chasis are super convenient for upgrades as I can take the blades out and replace with newer blades.

I assume 4 nodes are noisy and do not have enough expansion slots but some of them comes with 2 nodes and they seem to be fine with 2 full and one half expansion slot.

I am planning to get one and later on upgrade with newer blades. Does this sound like a viable plan?
 

Bert

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Does anyone hands on experience on these chassis? It seems like x10 series motherboards can also use this chassis but x11 series looks like using different connection to support nvme drives. I wonder if the x11 series nodes can be adapted to use the old chassis.